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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2018 13:02:38 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2018 13:03:49 GMT -5
"I WON'T GO TO SCHOOL AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"
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Post by maxinquaye on Jun 9, 2018 13:09:40 GMT -5
"Donny, in this household we help each other with the chores."
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Post by robeiae on Jun 9, 2018 13:21:41 GMT -5
"Dammit Donald, you can't put two hotels on Park Place!"
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Post by robeiae on Jun 10, 2018 18:46:04 GMT -5
Explain this:
L.O.L. Is that a fake eyebrow, or did a hairy caterpillar die on Trudeau's eyelid?
ETA: Apparently, I'm not alone in my suspicions...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 13:52:06 GMT -5
I think Trudeau's eyebrow is a trick of the light. look at some other pictures of him. His eyebrow hairs are a touch unruly-- they grow in different directions and don't appear to be uniform in color or spacing.
On my fave G-7 picture, behold the burn of the former Prime Minister of Belgium:
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Post by Don on Jun 17, 2018 7:19:11 GMT -5
I'd title it "more media manipulation."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 8:04:22 GMT -5
Oh, FFS. Fine. The G-7 went swimmingly. They're all fine with Trump not signing the communique, and Trudeau is totes fine with Trump and his surrogates saying there's a special place in hell for him as they kiss up to a murderous tinpot dictator who kills his own family and slaughters his own people. It's all just the EEEEEEVVVVILLL media manipulating things to make them it look like the summit was not a triumph for Trump and things aren't perfectly hunky-dory with our erstwhile allies. By the way, a German government photographer took the picture I posted, and Angela Merkel's office released it. I'm pretty confident that the reason Merkel's office chose that particular photo, of the many, many that were no doubt taken during the summit, was because she (and the other G-7 participants) felt that it best captured the mood of the summit overall, and our G-7 allies' feelings about how it went. That's legit commentary, not "manipulation." ETA: To draw an analogy (bear with me for a minute as I get to it): A couple years ago, I had a final, decisive break with an emotionally abusive older relative. I'd long endured her in silence for my late father's sake -- he hated family rows of any sort. The night the final straw came was at a dinner party, the first time I'd seen her since my father's funeral (where she was also horrible, but never mind). Though the relative was making her customary not-so-veiled digs all night, and I was inwardly seething, I kept it under wraps for the sake of the other relatives. Actually, I didn't intend to make a break at all. I intended to continue enduring it for the sake of family peace. Had a photographer been following me around that entire night (or hell, my entire life, really), taking pictures, they would have caught plenty of shots of me smiling, laughing, talking, including with Abusive Relative. But at some point, I was alone with Abusive Relative and she said something with regard to my late father that crossed a line. In my view, there was no excuse for it and I am certain it was intended to aim straight at a weak point for me, in order to wound me where I was most vulnerable. And she figured I'd just take it, as I always have. Only I didn't. At long last, I turned to her and said "Fuck you." And I started packing up to leave. She lost her shit with a "how dare you!" and in the brief period she had as I got my stuff together (maybe 10 minutes), she followed me around, poking me, yelling a shit ton of egregious open abuse at me, yanking up whatever she could think of going right back to my babyhood. I didn't say a goddamn word until I was ready to go. Her final salvo had been "did it ever occur to you that this is all YOUR fault?" I said, "you know what? I don't even care whose fault it is. Blame me if you like. I'm done." So. If the imaginary photographer had come to me with a stack of photographs, most of them smiling (or at least not hostile), and asked me to choose one that embodied best my feelings about that night, and indeed, the entire relationship, the one I would have chosen would have been the moment I turned to her and said "Fuck you." Ideally, it would have caught her, too, as she transitioned from insult mode to shock and rage. IMO, that's what the German government did here. This picture is commentary. It was chosen to show how the German government viewed Trump overall during the summit. And that's perfectly fucking legitimate. I'll also add that this was supposed to be a light-hearted caption thread, just because I found the picture itself, taking aside the more serious aspects of what it may represent, funny. I'm trying to grock turning it into a "oh, that manipulative media" thread, and really, I can't.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 9:19:44 GMT -5
And in case you are wondering why this upsets me and why I can't just let it slide with a joke, as I once would have done -- Sure, the press isn't perfect. Sure, reporters, columnists, etc., have their biases as we all do. But I consider the free press absolutely vital to our republic, never more so than now. And it is under constant, unrelenting attack by the Trump administration. He knows, given the reins of government are all in his party's hands and the Republican Congress is doing shit-all to restrain him, that the free press is the single biggest most important check on his power, the one thing flying in the face of his continual stream of lies. THAT'S why he so constantly attacks and attempts to discredit it. He's admitted as much. I will hunt down for the quote, but he outright fucking said that he attacks it all the time so that no one will believe the press when they say something negative about him. In that climate, to feed into it with "oh, more press manipulation" is a huge WTF for me. Pointing out that a story has facts wrong is one thing -- that's legitimate. (And come on. Reporters are going to sometimes get things wrong or jump the gun, as they always have. What's important is that when they do, they correct it -- unlike, say Sean Hannity.) Going "oh, the fake manipulative media" about something like this? Yeah, that's feeding the most dangerous possible trolls. ETA: Ah, yes. Here we go. www.businessinsider.com/trump-attacks-media-to-undermine-negative-stories-60-minutes-interview-2018-5
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Post by GilroyC on Jun 19, 2018 20:07:13 GMT -5
"I'm taking my money and going home." "Then we won't give you any more business."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 20:16:20 GMT -5
"I'm taking my money and going home." "Then we won't give you any more business."
Welcome, Gilroy!
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Post by Lavern on Aug 28, 2018 10:25:57 GMT -5
"You're NOT getting a Squatty-Potty, and that's the end of this conversation, Donald!"
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